Microsoft 9GD00001 manual Learning Just Enough C# or VB.NET Basic Syntax

Chapter 2: Learning Just Enough C# or VB.NET: Basic Syntax 37

Figure 2-1 The New Project window

To get started, open VS and select File New Project. You’ll see the New Project window, shown in Figure 2-1. Your first task is to select Console Application as the program type. Then set the program name to FirstProgram and specify a location of your choice for where the project will be created. Other features of the New Project window include the ability to specify the .NET Framework version, sorting options, icon size options, and a search capability.

NOTE

It’s often useful to choose a project location other than the default. The default is your personal “My Documents” folder, which is long to type, cumbersome to navigate to, and error prone. Choosing a shorter path helps alleviate these problems. If you’re working on a team with other developers, it’s also helpful to use a common location for projects where everyone has their files in the same location.

NOTE

In the example code that accompanies this book, the projects are named FirstProgramCS (containing C# examples) and FirstProgramVB (containing VB examples). You’ll see this convention, specifying the language in the project name suffix, in all of the code examples accompanying this book.